Cropping an UIImage

Question

I\'ve got some code that resizes an image so I can get a scaled chunk of the center of the image - I use this to take a UIImage and return a small, square repre

Answer 1

I wasn't satisfied with other solutions because they either draw several time (using more power than necessary) or have problems with orientation. Here is what I used for a scaled square croppedImage from a UIImage * image.

CGFloat minimumSide = fminf(image.size.width, image.size.height);
CGFloat finalSquareSize = 600.;

//create new drawing context for right size
CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0, 0, finalSquareSize, finalSquareSize);
CGFloat scalingRatio = 640.0/minimumSide;
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size);

//draw
[image drawInRect:CGRectMake((minimumSide - photo.size.width)*scalingRatio/2., (minimumSide - photo.size.height)*scalingRatio/2., photo.size.width*scalingRatio, photo.size.height*scalingRatio)];

UIImage *croppedImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();

UIGraphicsEndImageContext();